While we're left wondering what might have been had either team pushed for a win in the final stages of a wonderful Test match, we'd do well to remember that it's difficult for players to take calls that could possibly undo five days of hard work"This. Is. Awesome." Those who watch World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) know that chant well. You can hear it during the great, long matches when the wrestling...
Whose win should it have been anyway?
'Shocked SA didn't push for a win' - Kohli This great Test ended with both teams blaming the other for not going for the win, trying to claim a psychological advantage. Until Faf du Plessis' run-out, with 16 to get off 20, it was anybody's guess which team was more desperate to win and which was going for safety, but both the sides waited for the other to make the play in the last three...
Smith defends safety-first tactics
South Africa's captain supports Vernon Philander and Dale Steyn's decision to play it safe, in the face of criticism from the crowd and former players 'India didn't show enough desire to win' - Smith The Wanderers crowd are an unforgiving lot. Even though they did not fill the stadium once - with work commitments, holiday season and threatening weather keeping them away - they made their...
Saving this Test 'little bit harder' than Adelaide - du Plessis
'Faf a player for the big occasion' When Faf du Plessis batted seven hours and 46 minutes to save South Africa in the Adelaide Test, he was a man on debut who "thought it was possible" to bat for more than four sessions but actually "didn't believe I could". When he walked in with nine overs to go on the fourth evening against India at the Wanderers and a day of batting ahead of him, he "knew...
Dec
22
We proved we weren't scared - Pujara
Feel responsibility to score big when set - Pujara India's batsmen have not only surpassed expectations, they have flown in the face of suggestions that they might be scarred and scared after the battering in the ODIs. Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored his first overseas century to almost bat South Africa out of the Johannesburg Test, feels there is work is yet to be done, though. "I think...
Crafty bowler v tough batsman
Zaheer Khan and Graeme Smith have history, but the batsman survived the latest chapter of their ongoing duelTwenty-three balls. That's all it was. It didn't prove to be decisive to the day's play. Fourteen runs came. Not even a wicket resulted. It also lost in entertainment value to the time when MS Dhoni took off his pads and bowled, and then kept without pads. You couldn't take your eye off it,...
Graeme Swann retires mid-series
Graeme Swann, the England offspinner, has retired from all international cricket and first-class cricket with immediate effect. Swann, 34, will not play in the final two Tests of the Ashes tour and will finish his career with 255 wickets at 29.96 from his 60 Tests. However, on a disappointing tour of Australia in which England have gone down 3-0 after the first three Tests, Swann has been one of...
New Zealand ease to series victory
New Zealand 349 (Taylor 131, Williamson 58, Narine 6-91) and 124 for 2 (Williamson 56) beat West Indies 367 (Chanderpaul 122*, Ramdin 107, Southee 4-79) and 103 (Boult 4-23, Southee 3-12) by eight wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details New Zealand suffered few alarms as they eased to an eight-wicket victory in Hamilton to claim the series 2-0. It was their first series victory over a top-eight...
Dec
21
Mathews lauds Sri Lanka's spirit
Angelo Mathews said his team's two-wicket win over Pakistan in Dubai was borne of spirit, after Sri Lanka chased down 286 with two balls and two wickets to spare. Sri Lanka's chase was the highest second-innings score at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, and the second-highest overall. Mathews, Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Dinesh Chandimal all crossed 40 in the chase, and Nuwan Kulasekara...
Pujara and Kohli defy expectations
The skill and acumen exhibited by Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli in the Johannesburg Test befit batsmen who have had much longer stints in Test cricket Match Point: 'Pujara, Kohli showed more patience than some veterans' Cheteshwar Pujara is playing his third Test in South Africa, and his third outside Asia. Virat Kohli is in his first in South Africa, and his eighth outside Asia. The...
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